yes. i replied to myself.
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 10:56 PM, Jerry Amundson <jamundso at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Ross S. W. Walker
> <RWalker at medallion.com> wrote:
>> Alexandre Biancalana wrote:
>>> On 8/26/08, Ross S. W. Walker <RWalker at medallion.com> wrote:
>>> > If you upgrade to xen.org release of Xen then you can use the
>>> > block-drbd script to specify by drbd resource name instead of
>>> > device, but that's just fluff in stuff, and doesn't have
>>> > anything to do with the ability to live migrate which is all
>>> > handled by the allow-two-primaries option.
>> True. In my case : CentOS 5.3, incl. kernel-xen and heartbeat, Xen.org
> 3.x, DRBD 8.2.
> It works, but has no cookie-cutter howto.
>>>> Are you saying that we can only use block-drbd script with Xen 3.2 ?
>> It's really not so much the Xen version, but the distro.
more so, within the distro, the bootstrap method used for the domU
>> It might work with the Xen 3.1 libraries too, but that's also
>> irrelevant as CentOS/RHEL has decided to use the Xen 3.0.3
>> libraries (though they are using the Xen 3.1 hypervisor, go
>> figure!).
>> How did you determine they are different versions?
oh, maybe the thread I just noticed in xen-users?
http://lists.xensource.com/archives/html/xen-users/2008-08/msg00791.html
where Pasi says,
-> To be more clear about it, RHEL 5.2 version of Xen _hypervisor_ is 3.1.2 +
-> patches.
-> RHEL 5.2 kernel-xen is based on older Xen (3.0.3 iirc) kernel code.
>> Linbit wrote the block-drbd script for Xen 3.1 (maybe 3.2) and
>> up, but definitely not pre-3.1.
>>>> For the definitive answer though I recommend posting on
>> drbd-user. Someone there might even have a work-around to
>> get it to work on earlier Xen libraries...
>>http://lists.linbit.com/pipermail/drbd-user/2008-August/010077.html>> jerry
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